Closed Bug 438692 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Bad certificate and similar messages when browser.xul.error_pages.enabled is false are inconvenient

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Security: UI
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 439062

People

(Reporter: glandium, Assigned: KaiE)

Details

When disabling "xul error pages", docshell pops-up alerts about the certificate problem. The first problem is that is doesn't allow to ignore the error, but I won't argue a lot about that. The second problem is that the strings displayed don't have html tags stripped out, so you end up with messages such as: The certificate is only valid for <a id="cert_domain_link" title="*.mozilla.org">*.mozilla.org</a>, which is not really nice. A side effect of the first problem (though it might not be the same code path) is that embedding applications are *forced* to use the "Firefox-way" of handling certificates errors while they may want their own UI to handle that (or hack around neterror, but that would exclude some kinds of UIs).
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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